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Scott Crabb, a soil conservation technician with NRCS, and Chad Render, Arkansas row crop farmer. Crabb introduced both Render and John Allen McGraw to the irrigation contest. “They do their research and they’re willing to try something new,” Crabb says of the farmers. Arkansas producers take the guesswork out of irrigation and save both water and money.
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Determining how much to water a crop can be both an art and a science, and when it comes to irrigation, most farmers have their own unique methods. But as technology advances, more producers are taking the guesswork out of irrigation and saving both water and money.
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Jeremy Weideman, a producer from Clay County who finished first in the Soybean Irrigation Contest with an average of 4.3 bushels per inch of water, said he also learned his crop could go longer without irrigation. First place winners of the University of Arkansas More Crop per Drop irrigation efficiency awards talk to Farm Press.
Chad Render says all it took was a little help from his friends in the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the USDA-NRCS to point him toward new water-saving practices on his corn, rice and soybean farm near Pine Bluff, Ark.
Render, who averaged producing 11.5 bushels of corn per acre per inch of water in his contest field last year.Render, who finished in first place in the University’s “Most Crop Per Drop” Corn Irrigation Contest in 2020, talked about his experience in a video shown during the first-ever virtual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference Jan. 27.
Chad Render wins University of Arkansas Most Crop Per Drop Corn Irrigation Contest for 2020.
Chad Render says all it took was a little help from his friends in the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the USDA-NRCS to point him toward new water-saving practices on his corn, rice and soybean farm near Pine Bluff, Ark.
Render, who finished in first place in the University’s “Most Crop Per Drop” Corn Irrigation Contest in 2020, talked about his experience in a video shown on the first-ever virtual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference Jan. 27.
“It doesn’t take that much effort when you have people with the University making it easy for us to do these practices like the Pipe Planner, the moisture sensors, the (surge) valves that y’all offer us to try,” said Render, who averaged producing 11.5 bushels of corn per acre per inch of water in his contest field last year.